Damping off question....HELP!

[mresseguie]

I'm having a bit of tough luck with my Momotaro starts. The soil is clearly too wet, so some of the seedlings are damping off. I'm hoping to save the remaining seedlings.

If I pot them up to 4" pots now (there are no true leaves yet), can I avoid the dreaded damping off, or is it already too late?

I don't have pix handy. The seedlings in question appear healthy enough, but I'm afraid they'll succumb later today or tomorrow if I do nothing.

My other 4 varieties are doing fine.......so far......

Michael

[rnewste]

Michael,

I had the same problem a month ago with a couple of seedlings going "horizontal", in a matter of a few hours. Had my soil way too wet, was the diagnosis from Carolyn and others here.

I quickly transplanted them into dry soil in 4" containers immediately and had no further ones "take a dirt nap".

Ray

[mresseguie]

Thanks, Ray.

I'm potting 'em up now. Fingers are crossed.

Michael

[dice]

The 10/1 water/hydrogen_peroxide treatment seems to
work (mentioned by Suze in a thread awhile back, with
approximate proportions from Worth in another thread).

I had newly emerged seedlings that were too wet
for a few weeks, wet enough for cotyledons to shrivel up
and fall off before true leaves emerged, and for the tips
of a few first true leaves to die (that was my clue what
the problem was).

I had initially watered them with water with 10% hydrogen
peroxide (from a standard drug store bottle, whatever
that concentration is) mixed in, and I misted them with
that until the seedlings emerged.

They have recovered slowly from being in seed starting
media too wet for too long, but none have damped-off.